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This Month in SF Gay History: April

Alice B. Toklas April 30, 1877 On this date in 1877, lesbian author Alice B. Toklas, partner of Gertrude Stein, was born in San Francisco….

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This month in SF Gay History: March

Disco legend Sylvester March 26, 1911 On this date in 1911, Tennessee Williams III (A Streetcar Named Desire), who is now honored on Castro’s Rainbow…

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This Month in SF Gay History: February

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin at their City Hall wedding in February of 2004. February 3, 1874 On this date in 1874, Gertrude Stein, author…

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This Week in SF Gay History: November 24 – 30

Oscar Wilde (1889) November 30, 1900 On this date in 1900, writer Oscar Wilde, now honored on Castro’s Rainbow Honor Walk, died of cerebral meningitis,…

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Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 2011)

On March 23, 2011, the gay community lost one of its earliest staunch celebrity advocates, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, two time Academy Award winner, one of the…

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